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Personal Narrative : A Year Passes Essay

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A year passes. There comes July, my vacation time. As usual, I go home, to Odessa. To see my family, to jump into the warm waves of the Black Sea, to catch up with my old, both high-school and college, friends. This time, I decide not to fly home but take a train. I need time to collect my thoughts. It’s a thousand miles journey; it’ll takes full twenty four hours. But I’m hardly going to be bored. There 's a lot on my plate to mull over. I need time to be mentally prepared to face my loved ones now when I’ve ventured on a new path in my life. During my stay, especially challenging is going to be the end of July. Мama will throw a birthday party for my cousin Eva, and I’ll be facing all members of our extending family. From the day her younger sister, Clara, died a few years ago, my mother has taken care of her niece, as if she were her own dear daughter. To celebrate Eva’s day, as usual, besides Big Abram, Eva’s father, and Little Abram, mama’s brother with his wife and children, she’ll invite every other of our relatives residing in Odessa. And, of course, my father’s friend Marshak, who usually comes with his wife and his son Mark, a teenager… Our living room, which at night turns into my parents’ bedroom, is going to be packed with the guests. They all will take seats around the expanded dinner table, to which mama will also attach our kitchen table. Since we don’t have enough chairs for everybody, from a small lumber-room, which Papa with Uncle

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